The cinepheur: post-cinematic passage, post-perceptual passage

This thesis develops a hermeneutic commensurate with the aesthetic and ontological challenges of what Steven Shaviro describes as a post-cinematic media ecology, and Shane Denson describes as an emergent post-perceptual media ecology. I consider canonicity and cinephilia as frustrated efforts to contain and comprehend this new cinematic media object, offering a third unit of interpretation in their place, which I describe as the cinetopic anecdote. I associate the cinetopic anecdote with a particular way of moving between cinema and cinematic infrastructure, which I label cinetopic passage, and with a subject position that I label the cinepheur. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s theory of the flâneur, I argue that the cinetopic anecdote precludes the extraction of a privileged cinematic moment in the manner characteristic of Christian Keathley’s cinephilic anecdote, but instead compels the cinepheur to instantiate, embody or physically recreate the infrastructural conditions that produced it, dovetailing production and consumption into what Axel Bruns has described as the emergent category of produsage; “unfinished artifacts, continuing process.” Having elaborated the cinetopic anecdote, I apply it to postmodern, post-cinematic and post-perceptual media ecologies, in order to evoke the peculiar forms of attachment and obsession bound up with the Criterion and Netflix platforms. In the process, I draw on Franco Moretti’s conception of distant reading to frame the cinetopic anecdote as a unit of distant viewing, offering distant viewings of Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak’s Cinemania, Sidney Lumet’s Garbo Talks and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom. Just as distant reading takes “the great unread” as its object of enquiry, so the cinetopic anecdote speaks to a media ecology preoccupied by the “great unviewed,” in which cinematic scarcity increasingly ramifies as an elegaic object

Gammer Gurton's Needle

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Monitoring technology

A process for infrared spectroscopic monitoring of insitu compositional changes in a polymeric material comprises the steps of providing an elongated infrared radiation transmitting fiber that has a transmission portion and a sensor portion, embedding the sensor portion in the polymeric material to be monitored, subjecting the polymeric material to a processing sequence, applying a beam of infrared radiation to the fiber for transmission through the transmitting portion to the sensor portion for modification as a function of properties of the polymeric material, monitoring the modified infrared radiation spectra as the polymeric material is being subjected to the processing sequence to obtain kinetic data on changes in the polymeric material during the processing sequence, and adjusting the processing sequence as a function of the kinetic data provided by the modified infrared radiation spectra information

Transformational Leadership Among Retired Senior Military Officers in the Malaysian Corporate Sector

The purpose of this research was to understand the nature of transformational leadership among retired senior military officers as leaders in the Malaysian corporate sector. The research was conducted through the examination of four research questions: (1) what are the characteristics of transformational leaders; (2) what are the specific practices that transformational leaders engage in; (3) what factors are associated with the emergence or practice of transformational leadership; and (4) what aspects of military leadership transfer to the corporate setting. The study employed the qualitative methodology and the data were collected through in-depth interviews, informal observations and examination of related documents. Leaders in the Malaysian corporate sector were purposefully selected to participate in this study. The partici pants included twelve leaders who are retired senior military officers formerly with the Army, Navy and the Air Force and presently holding senior positions in the corporate sector. The interviews were intended to obtain their perceptions, experiences, and practices related to their job as leaders in the corporate sector. The main sources of data were from the semistructured interviews that were taped, transcri bed and analysed. The interviews with the participants were between one to two hours. Apart from the leaders, data was also gathered from five subordinates who were informerly interviewed with the purpose of confirming certain aspects and triangulating the data obtained from the leaders. The study revealed five characteristics of transformational leaders, four aspects of transformational leadership practices, two main factors that influence transformational leadership practices and three main aspects of military leadership that emerged in leadership practices in the corporate environment. Apart from these findings, two other distinct aspects were also discovered to have emerged during the study. These aspects include 'a calling' for leadership prevalent among former military leaders and the need for adjustment from military to the corporate environment

Waves on a plasma column : the display and measurement of space charge waves on the positive column of a mercury vapour discharge

Thesis (M.Sc.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Physics, 196

Monitoring technology

A process for infrared spectroscopic monitoring of insitu compositional changes in a polymeric material comprises the steps of providing an elongated infrared radiation transmitting fiber that has a transmission portion and a sensor portion, embedding the sensor portion in the polymeric material to be monitored, subjecting the polymeric material to a processing sequence, applying a beam of infrared radiation to the fiber for transmission through the transmitting portion to the sensor portion for modification as a function of properties of the polymeric material, monitoring the modified infrared radiation spectra as the polymeric material is being subjected to the processing sequence to obtain kinetic data on changes in the polymeric material during the processing sequence, and adjusting the processing sequence as a function of the kinetic data provided by the modified infrared radiation spectra information

George William Stevenson in a Senior Voice Recital

This is the program for the senior voice recital of baritone George William Stevenson. Pianist Carolyn Yeldell assisted the performance. This recital took place on April 26, 1966, in the Mitchell Hall Auditorium

Bovine Viral Diarrhea in Dairy and Beef Cattle

The objective of the literature review was to understand the nature and characteristics of BVD within dairy and beef herds. The paper reviewed important aspects of the disease that are relevant and practical to producers. The ideas and opinions presented in the paper were a result of compilation and review of the current literature focused on BVD. Some particular areas of focus were general information about the disease, costs and effects, pathophysiology, virology, transmission, prevention and testing. Information provided throughout the paper attempts to link practices that producers may adopt or modify in order to minimize effects of the disease. A central theme portrayed throughout the paper is that BVD has the potential to be a devastating disease to herds with high numbers of persistently infected animals. Losses from the disease are such due to the broad nature of the virus. Many crucial areas of an operation such as reproduction, weight gain, milk production, and secondary diseases are sectors that cause the most losses to producers. This paper discusses the breadth of the disease as well as the wide spread effects from a clinical and economic level. Even though the disease may seem overwhelming to many producers, minimizing the effects of the virus within a herd may be completed through a few basic practices. This paper attempts to show that the potential for complete eradication of the disease may be possible on a herd and national level. Areas that would benefit from follow up work would be comprehensive economic effects generated from the disease

Teaching and the Boarding School Environment at TASIS England

This paper discusses my 1981 summer teaching experience at TASIS England, an American boarding school located outside London. In this environment, there were personal constraints both on the students and on myself. I increased my knowledge of the shape and structure of English and how to teach it. In the classroom there are always discipline problems. I look at one way I found to deal with them. In this boarding school environment, I had additional duties that gave me the opportunity to learn about teenagers. I also gained some insight into culture and how to relate to these international students as people